What to do on collection days

Leave your containers at the edge of your property or the agreed collection point

Place wheelie bins with handles facing the road and food bins with handles up

Make sure the lid of your bin is shut

Take your emptied containers back in by the evening of your collection day at the latest

Rubbish collection

Rubbish is collected fortnightly using a 140-litre grey wheelie bin or authorised blue sacks for households that have been assessed as unable to use wheelie bins.

All rubbish must be placed inside your bin with the lid shut or in authorised blue sacks. We will not collect any additional rubbish left outside your bin or in unauthorised sacks. The only exception is the first collection after Christmas, when we will collect up to two unauthorised sacks of rubbish.

Garden waste collection

Households in areas where the 'recycle for Dorset' service is used can also pay for an optional, fortnightly garden waste collection using a 240-litre wheelie bin with a brown lid.

Christmas and New Year collections

All collection days move back a day or more for two weeks over the Christmas and New Year period.
Check your collection calendar (opens in a new window) to find out your collection dates over the festive period. Collections on other Public Holidays are carried out as normal.

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